An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

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Exploring the foundations of morality, David Hume delves into how humans form moral judgments and the role of sentiment and emotion in ethics. He asserts that true virtue is rooted in human nature rather than societal laws, emphasizing qualities like mercy, generosity, and benevolence as the highest moral ideals. This work, regarded by Hume as his finest, builds on concepts from his earlier writings and continues to provoke thought on the nature of ethics nearly three centuries later.